Improvement in cigar-lighters



E. P. GLEASON.

Cigar Lighter.

Patented Nov. 13, 1866.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELLIOTT P. GLEASON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR-LIGHTERS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLIOTT P. GLEAsoN, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, haveinven ted anew and useful Improvement in Self-AdjustingGas-Cocks for Cigar-Lighters, (so called,) and for other purposes; and 1do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making partof this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of acigarlighter with my improved cock. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of thesaid cock, with a section of the globe removed to show clearly theimprovement in the construction.

Similar letters refer to like parts in both figures.

Theeigar-lighter, Fig. 1, is an apparatus for readily lighting cigars inplaces frequented by smokers. It has a piece of flexible tube attachedto the pipe F, by which it hangs pendent from a gas-fixture above. Thegas passes through the pipe F to the cock L, and thence through the tube0 to the cup or lighter D, Where it is inflamed. The smoker takes theapparatus by the handle G, and places the cup to the end of the cigarand lights it, in the usual way. The weight of the handle as the lighterhangs suspended partially closes the cock B and decreases the flame inthe cup D, and when the handle is lifted in the act of lighting thecigar the cock is turned open sufficiently to increase the flame andmake it shoot out of the cup upon the end of the cigar and light it, theturning of the cock in this way being limited by a peg, i, in the plugof the cock and a space out in the globe, in which it moves, as shown inFig. 2.

No part of the cigar-lighter as described is claimed as new, theinvention being confined to an improvement in the construction of thecock, as hereinafter describedthat is to say, the plug a is chamberedout for about half its length, and the pipe F is screwed into the end ofthe plug for the admission of gas to the chamber. A small perforation,t, Fig. 2, is made into the chamber in the plug,from which the gasescapes, and a flat score, a, is turned in the plug and a similar scorein the socket of the globe, to which the plug is fitted, which formtogether an annular passage for the gas around the plug, and aperforation is made through from the outside of the globe into thepassage to, in which the tube 0 is screwed, to convey the gas from thecock to the lightingcup D. Another perforation is made in the globe,into the passage a in which is inserted a screw, 6, in such a positionthat the inner end of the screw will cover and uncover the perforation tby the turning of the plug, and thereby let the gas off and on, in themanner before described. The end of the screw is of the same breadth asthe score a, andis to be adjusted so as to permit only the requisitequantity of gas to escape from the perforation t to create the desiredflame in the cup. While the lighter remains suspended the end of thescrew covers the perforation t, permitting only a sufficient escape ofthe gas to maintain combustion in the cup, but when the lighter islifted to light the cigar the turning of the. plug uncovers theperforation, and permits more gas to escape and to shoot in a flame fromthe cup D. i

- lVhat I claim is- The self-adjusting gas-cock, constructedsubstantially in the manner described, for the purpose specified.

ELLIOTT P. GLEASON.

Witnesses:

ISAAC A. BROWNELL, SAMUEL W. ADAMS.

